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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Emine Sinmaz

Gordon Brown asks top civil servant to investigate Mandelson ‘leak to Epstein’

Brown and Mandelson walking in the rain. Mandelson has a hand over his face
Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson pictured in February 2010. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/AP

The former prime minister Gordon Brown has asked the cabinet secretary to investigate Peter Mandelson’s apparent disclosure of highly sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein.

Mandelson was business secretary during Brown’s premiership, when he appears to have leaked an economic briefing to Epstein, who was serving a jail sentence at the time for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

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